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Show HHH vs Nixon Smylie Foresees '68 Elections f By DAVE ROWLAND Chronicle Staff Writer Republican politics and the United Uni-ted States "sellout" of Vietnam was described Friday by former Governor Gov-ernor Robert Smylie (R-Ida.) in an informal presentation with members mem-bers of a political science class assembled as-sembled in the Hinckley Caucus Room. Speaking about the national elecr dency. "I'm for the candiaat wins the nomination." Changing the subject to Vfe N Gov. Smylie said "We 0 have allowed ourselves to get V b that hole so deep. We should ne1e! C have entered the Vietnam War d He added, however, that this bad time to get out. ' b c He said the peace site will prcb T- ably be Warsaw, Poland, a site tha- " the United States has been urnvj ing to accept. "Nobody's going to budge for awhile," he said. sides will wait until each has ft ten as much propaganda out o ttj negotiations disagreement as ble, then there will be a comproj'. ' ise." He pointed out "the commit nists have the time on their sit ' It will have to be a negotiate- ! peace settlement. One Sunday nig'r- j a couple of weeks ago, we gave t the fight in Vietnam. It was a j mistake. Now we're number two: , tion, Mr. Smylie predicted that the final campaign would be between Vice President Hubert Humphrey and former Vice President Richard Nixon "with Nixon landing the plane. He commented that in case of an upset at the Republican convention con-vention in August, he could not help but foresee the "possibility of a Sacramento-Albany" coalition." "I'm glad I don't write a column," col-umn," said Mr. Smylie. "This is a bad year for crystal balls. Last year, the idea was that three or four strong Republican possibilities would be hustling for the nomina-tian, nomina-tian, and the incumbant President would cinch his party's nomination. My predictions can only be considered con-sidered as the best possibilities at this moment. Who knows what may happen before August." Big Election Year Gov. Smylie predicted, "This could be the biggest political year since 1932." He said the election and the campaign is one that will be realistic, candidates will face issues as they really exist and not as they public would like to hear them. When asked if he felt Gov. Ronald Reagan of California would try for the Republican nomination despite declines to do so up to the present time, Smylie replied that he would have to take the governor on his word, and say he's not available. avail-able. "He's probably running all- right though, but the final decision's deci-sion's up to him." He said he feels Richard Nixon is conducting an "active non-campaign. He has the nomination pretty pret-ty much sewed up so I don't blame hi mfor keeping quiet." Smylie said Nixon would open his mouth on the issues in September and added he has already said some unfortunate un-fortunate things that didn't need broadcasting, such as his promise to end the Vietnam war, and his statement that he would abolish the draft once the war has been concluded. Draft Abolishment Unreasonable "I'd like to see his (draft abolishment) abolish-ment) proposal before I comment on it," said Smylie. "To me the idea is unfeasable. I don't seriously serious-ly think there will be enough volunteer vol-unteer recruits to give the country the military manpower she needs." When asked if he thought third party candidate George Wallace would play any part in upsetting the election, Smylie replied he didn't think so, adding that he was staging a campaign in Idaho de-srigned de-srigned to get Wallace's name on the ballot. " I know him personally, person-ally, and I want to vote against him." Mr. Smylie said he did not have any political plans in the next year for himself, and further stated he did not intend to lead the Idaho delegation to the Republican convention. con-vention. "I've done enough for awhile. I want to give some other people a chance to get involved with the procedure." He made clear he was not in support of any particular candidate for the presi- |